Quotes About Mind

Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; … it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself. (Wittgenstein commenting on Sartre's Hell is other people.

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

5.641 [...] Das philosophische Ich ist nicht der Mensch, nicht der menschliche Körper, oder die menschliche Seele, von der die Psychologie handelt, sondern das metaphysische Subjekt, die Grenze - nicht ein Teil - der Welt.

Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mente. Sólo conozco aquello para lo que tengo palabras.

It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.

Our motto might be: Let us not be bewitched.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

As consolation you thought of the dead and liked to assume them with you in some sense, present in the ether or the fiber of the mind. But then you had to admit that if they were in fact present, abstractly present as you wished to believe, if they were there in the molecules, their spirit in everything... what fresh horrors would they find?

Il cervello è l'unica cosa che valga la pena di avere a questo mondo, non importa se si è corvi o uomini.

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country but it might not be the same god as the god of the church and I might not be digging on the message of the president because the windmills of his mind are cracked on a lot of subjects concerning people.

The thing i call 'my mind' seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn't really know its tenants.

To follow a wandering mind means having to get lost. Can you stand being lost?

On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.

Love is love and shouldn't upset anyone. So what else are they thinking about when they get upset at your partner preferences?" she asked reasonably, and then answered the question herself. "Their minds are in your pants and on what you do. And while they're welcome to bury their brain in their own pants, they have no business in yours.

In the next moment, Danvers began to recite the Lord's prayer, which was rather sacrilegious to her mind considering that she suspected he'd burst into flames if he dared enter a church, but she wasn't going to complain.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.